Professional Documents
Culture Documents
First Pick
Student’s Name
Instructor’s Name
Course
Due Date
FIRST PICK 2
Introduction
adjust to the change and ensure that business operations are not affected, managing team needs to
develop a strategy for recruiting new members and retaining existing employees. The paper will
analyze recruitment plan, pre-boarding checklist and on-boarding plan, policies and practices to
avoid rapid departure of employees, and strategic plan for mitigating impact of employees' rapid
departure.
Recruitment plan
A recruitment plan is the best tool organizations can use to secure employees and organization
operations. Recruitment plan offers an effective workload, succession and budget plan, talent and
cost management. The process of recruitment planning ensures that organization evaluates the
best alternatives for job positioning. An effective recruitment plan consists of recruitment,
sourcing, on-boarding and pre-boarding phases. In recruitment phase, organizations identify the
job position and highlight all requirements need for the job which is used to select candidates in
sourcing phase. After candidates are selected and those that most fits are narrowed during
interviews, where those that meet the requirements are eligible to undergo pre-boarding and
onboarding phases.
Pre-boarding checklist
In the pre-boarding phase, candidates undergo a background check to examine their physical,
mental and psychological fitness for the job. Background check-up is essential in determining
who best fits for the job and ensure that candidates selected have no criminal records or previous
On-Boarding Plan
Candidates that pass pre-boarding tests are hired and introduced to onboarding procedures.
During onboarding candidates are engaged in training, filling paperwork and introduced to their
new job responsibilities and tasks (Krasman, 2015). Employees’ performance is evaluated during
the first months to ensure that they meet set targets and work effectively under minimal
Employees work effectively when motivated and involved in making operational decisions
and policies. To increases employee retention, there is a need to create policies that solve job
conflicts and create common goals for all parties. Policies formulated should address new ways
of motivating and empowering employees to meet the common goals. With open communication
between managers and co-workers, organizations can identify barriers to a common goal and
Strategic Plan
departure. The gap created can cripple business operations if immediate actions are not taken to
fill-in the position. Moon, Bergemann, Brown, Chen, Chu, Eisen & Cohen (2018) posits that it is
important for organizations to be prepared for such a crisis by formulation of a strategic plan that
will handle the resulting consequences. Organizations can build a back-up through encouraging
employees to share tasks and projects which ensures that the organization absorbs the effects of
unexpected resignation (Pittman & Scully-Russ, 2016). Basically, organizations need to keep
FIRST PICK 4
track of skills within the organization so as to easily identify skills that fit the job position
created. The back-up process involves 4 steps that organizations must follow effectively.
Steps
Work distribution
Work distribution ensures that highest performing employees are not overloaded with tasks.
Organizations need to disperse work and assignments in a way that skills are shared and a certain
employee is not tasked with all essential projects and tasks (Kim, 2019). The strategy facilitates
risk distribution and expansion of mind power when the highly relied personnel resign.
Double-up
It is essential to ensure that organizational resources are deployed efficiently and reservations
created. Building back-ups ensures that even in the departure of employees ongoing projects can
Career development
recovery method. When employees are encouraged to grow and exploit their potential, in case of
gaps in workforce they fully fit in and complete essential tasks (Kim, 2019). In addition,
organizations that encourage career to develop to create a positive brand in the talent
marketplace that allows them to easily attract top talents and skills to fill in the key roles created.
Replacement
When employees leave, it is important to engage the remaining employees. Managing team
needs to build resilience and cultivate the ability to agilely adjust to the inevitable workforce
change. Remaining employees need to be given a chance on basis of their job qualifications and
experience to show their competence for the job position (Pittman & Scully-Russ, 2016).
FIRST PICK 5
Conclusion
Employee turnover is inevitable in organizational life. The steps, ideas, and perspectives that
follow after an employee have resigned determine the future of the organization. Thus leaders
owe it to employees and the organization to take proactive measures and steps to minimize the
References
Education, 2.
at SSRN 3252784.
Krasman, M. (2015). Three Must‐Have Onboarding Elements for New and Relocated
Moon, K., Bergemann, P., Brown, D., Chen, A., Chu, J., Eisen, E., ... & Cohen, J. (2018).
Pittman, P., & Scully-Russ, E. (2016). Workforce planning and development in times of delivery